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Old 06-24-2018, 08:14 PM
 
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vietnamese, thai, lao, khemer ,mongolian,korean,mandarin,sangkrit ( hindi )
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Old 06-26-2018, 10:42 PM
 
Location: 53179
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Worst
Arabic
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Old 06-15-2019, 03:36 AM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Vietnamese
Mandarin
Spanish
Italian
Arabic
Hindi
Farsi
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Old 06-17-2019, 01:09 AM
 
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worst: any of the many Indian language dialects. It sounds so chaotic and frenetic. How do they even sleep being so wound up?
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Old 06-17-2019, 02:09 AM
 
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I haven't heard any languages that annoy me. But the "click" languages of southern Africa I find very distracting.
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Old 06-17-2019, 02:39 AM
 
Location: Around the UK!
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Some American "English"
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Old 06-17-2019, 10:23 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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I think a lot of people here simply mention languages from countries they can't stand (without ever having been there, mind you)...

To people in the West tone languages often sound weird because Western languages are not tone languages.

I can't say I find any languages annoying, they are fascinating, I mean, all languages go back to one primitive language spoken hundreds of thousands of years ago, yet today there are thousands of languages, many of them extremely different from each other.

But of course I do find some languages less pleasant to listen to. Hebrew and Arabic for instance sound pretty ugly to me. Some Asian languages sound very hectic.
I like to hear some African languages, they have a pleasant syllable structure with lots of full vowels and voiced consonants (b, m, etc.), so they sound the opposite of Semitic languages, which sound very harsh to me.
Basque sounds really weird to me

Before I learned Portuguese, i.e. 15+ years ago, I thought it sounded like Russian, but now that I am fluent in it, it sounds very pleasant and sensual to me. So, it is also a matter of merely getting used to a language.
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Old 06-17-2019, 10:55 AM
 
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American English (loud talkers)
Danish
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Old 06-17-2019, 12:17 PM
 
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Vietnamese
Mandarin
Spanish
Italian

Arabic
Hindi
Farsi
Not questioning your opinion, just curious as to these two. Normally people find Italian beautiful and at least some Spanish accents can be quite pleasant, but there are definitely some Spanish accents that are bad.
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Old 06-17-2019, 01:10 PM
 
Location: Rome
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I think a lot of people here simply mention languages from countries they can't stand (without ever having been there, mind you)...

To people in the West tone languages often sound weird because Western languages are not tone languages.

I can't say I find any languages annoying, they are fascinating, I mean, all languages go back to one primitive language spoken hundreds of thousands of years ago, yet today there are thousands of languages, many of them extremely different from each other.

But of course I do find some languages less pleasant to listen to. Hebrew and Arabic for instance sound pretty ugly to me. Some Asian languages sound very hectic.
I like to hear some African languages, they have a pleasant syllable structure with lots of full vowels and voiced consonants (b, m, etc.), so they sound the opposite of Semitic languages, which sound very harsh to me.
Basque sounds really weird to me

Before I learned Portuguese, i.e. 15+ years ago, I thought it sounded like Russian, but now that I am fluent in it, it sounds very pleasant and sensual to me. So, it is also a matter of merely getting used to a language.
Curious. I find Basque sounds exactly like Iberian Spanish, i.e. their phonology is pretty much the same.
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